The Strokes

My personal 'The Strokes' ranking albums :

1- Is This It (2001) => 84.6
2- Room on Fire (2003) => 81.4
3- First Impression of Earth (2005) => 81.1
4- The New Abnormal (2020) => 80
5- Angles (2011) => 78.5
6- Comedown Machine (2013) => 77.3

A lot of very good songs, but if I had to create a 'Best of The Strokes', it would be made of 23 tracks :

- Is This It (2001) => 85
- The Modern Age (2001) => 85
- Barely Legal (2001) => 85
- Someday (2001) => 90
- Last Nite (2001) => 90
- Hard to Explain (2001) => 90
- Trying Your Luck (2001) => 85
- What Ever Happened? (2003) => 85
- Reptilia (2003) => 90
- Automatic Stop (2003) => 85
- 12:51 (2003) => 85
- The End Has No End (2003) => 90
- You Only Live Once (2005) => 90
- Juicebox (2005) => 85
- Heart in a Cage (2005) => 85
- Razorblade (2005) => 85
- Electricityscape (2005) => 85
- Under Cover of Darkness (2011) => 90
- Tap Out (2013) => 85
- One Way Trigger (2013) => 85
- The Adults Are Talking (2020) => 85
- Selfless (2020) => 90
- At The Door (2020) => 90

i dont get it, plain and simple...

From Strangel 04/28/2020 07:57 | #250619

This album is exactly what you’d hope for at this point in their career. It perfectly combines their essential sound with their ambition. Their essential sound got lost a bit on recent albums in their ambition to challenge themselves. It made for interesting progressions In their sound without being able to nail a classic recording. I think they might have nailed it with this one.

I think they're the epitome of cool in the alt-rock scene of the new millennium. Their garage rock sound is an A+, their 80s new wave sound infused with today's alt-rock is a B+. People don't want to look past Is This It?, but I believe Room On Fire is a more polished album that doesn't drag in the way that Is This It?'s trite sound tends to do. Angles is very much underrated and Comedown Machine is a pretty solid throwback album to 80s alt. First Impressions is messy but they have 7 or so solid tunes on it.

Album Rankings:
1. Room on Fire- 96/100
2. Is This It?- 93/100
3. Angles- 89/100
4. Comedown Machine- 84/100
5. First Impressions of Earth- 72/100

My third favourite artist, behind Queen & The Cure
Is This It - 98/100
Room On Fire 92/100
First Impressions of Earth - 93/100
Angles - 86/100
Comedown Machine - 83/100
Future Present Past EP - 58/100

Great band in their prime (2001-2003). Post Room On Fire career is pretty good too. Not heard their last album tho.
1. Is This It
2. Room On Fire
3. Angles
4. First Impressions Of Earth

From choppychop532 08/10/2016 05:52 | #172684

These guys will always have a special place in my heart.

From RasmV 01/12/2016 19:21 | #156377

I don't get why everyone thinks they got so much worse? No, sure, non of the other albums are on Is This It's level, but seriously, they are still fantastic albums. Angles is so so underrated, and Comedown Machine has some great tunes too.

From Space-Dementia 10/27/2015 05:02 | #152118

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From awesomness425 07/17/2015 06:57 | #145924

Is This It is a genius album and some great tunes come by on their other records.